A friendly commentary on Rex Parker's NYT puzzle blog and on NYT KenKen puzzles, plus occasional observations on literature, art, culture, and music

12/30/2012

OOZING PIOUS

Props to Steve Savoy for good execution on the IO theme--eight long acrosses and two long interlocking downs ain't easy to do. And there aren't a million long thematic answers that work--agree w/ Rex that CURIO RENT EVENTS ain't great, but hey, it's a whole better than PIOUS OOZING.

A slow nitty solve for me for no particularly interesting reason--like Rex, I got hung up in the NE.